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Third Day: New and Selected Poems


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Third Day is a selection from the poems Grey Gowrie has written between 1958 and the present day. At the centre of the book is the sequence 'The Domino Hymn: Poems from Harefield', first published to great acclaim in 2005. This work draws on the best part of a year spent in hospital when the author, dying of a virus on the heart, was jolted back to life and writing by the surgical gift of a heart from a living donor. 'Marches', poems of the post-operative years, follows, inspired by the country between England and Wales and the borderlands we all occupy between being and non-being. The book ends with 'From Primrose Hill' a meditation on contemporary London.

Table of Contents:
Contents:Part One. SixtiesBirthday SongPenelopeArabianFor BrerBaucisLady DayFather's StoryPostscript: HistoryOberlandPrairie WindInsect OthersA Chance WorldSixtiesMarion's TimeOutside Biba'sThe Last Local OnesA Postcard from Don GiovanniWaiting SongThe Beach GirlLike NereidsDuck LunchStarLittle Paul Klee BluesFor George HerbertPostscript: The LessonFor Robert DuncanEaster Greetings for Samuel BeckettPianoA Prayer for IntelligenceElizabeth in the ShallowsMarch LettersThe Outlook Is Fair OnlyJealousy WeatherSmoke curlsThe Way AheadThe Wordsfrom An Imagined LifeBlue CafeTwenty-EightAspects of a NovelPart Two. The Domino Hymn: Poems from HarefieldTransplantCelebrateThe SquallHarvestLocalJudgementCullFractureThird DayGiftThe Domino HymnPostscript: The MagusMinoanPart Three. MarchesWas Judas's Cover Blown?Funny Old GameAngela's DreamAlbumFernDriveSevernGeorgicMarchesGardener's TaleQuartet for CharlotteFlightDingleFinnishCourrancesSo world,From Primrose HillNotesAcknowledgements

About the Author :
Grey Gowrie was born in Dublin in 1939. Educated and professionally engaged in England and the USA, he made his home in Ireland until 1983 when he moved to the Welsh Marches. He taught English and American literature at Harvard and University College London and in 1972, on publishing his first collection of poems, exchanged an academic career for business and public life. He has been a company chairman, a Cabinet minister, Chairman of the Arts Council of England and Provost of the Royal College of Art. He is married to the German journalist Adelheid von der Schulenburg and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

Review :
'The Domino Hymn' rages movingly against the dying of the light, covering heroic distances and charting epic struggles in the space of eighteen unflinching and atmospheric pages. Grey Gowrie's poems - utterly free from any querulous or self-pitying role - touch the reader's own heart as they give voice to the 'poor, bare, forked' individuals who are enmeshed in the tubes and wires of machine-age medicine.' - Times Literary Supplement.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781857549669
  • Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: Carcanet Press Ltd
  • Height: 216 mm
  • Returnable: Y
  • Width: 135 mm
  • ISBN-10: 185754966X
  • Publisher Date: 24 Apr 2008
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: New and Selected Poems


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